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A growing number of British Asian families are hiring detectives to check on potential spouses. But does “honeytrapping” cross the line?

“These statues look like they’re made to be toppled,” says historian Adrian Tinniswood. “They’re statements of liberation but they represent a failure of confidence — where are the African designers and African sculptors who’d be better representing African consciousness?”

When Libyan rebels celebrated the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the colonel’s gold-plated pistol was held up as a symbol of their victory — I watched as they passed it among themselves. Four years on, I’ve been back to Libya to find the man with the golden gun.

Up to 40 percent of those on the Pacific island of Tonga is thought to have type 2 diabetes and life expectancy is falling. What do sheep have to do with it?

The Mafia has been part of Sicilian life for generations, and so has the battle by police to arrest its leaders. The elite unit that goes after them is called the Catturandi — from the word meaning “to catch” — one of its officers described the shadowy world in which he works, and how he kept his job hidden from his girlfriend until she recognized his bottom on TV.